CN106563617A - Breathing card liquid coating device - Google Patents

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CN106563617A
CN106563617A CN201611030201.1A CN201611030201A CN106563617A CN 106563617 A CN106563617 A CN 106563617A CN 201611030201 A CN201611030201 A CN 201611030201A CN 106563617 A CN106563617 A CN 106563617A
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陈世雄
张杨
唐元诗
施学忠
谭朝新
马柱
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Anhui Young-Hearty Medical Appliance & Equipment Co Ltd
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05CAPPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05C5/00Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work
    • B05C5/02Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work the liquid or other fluent material being discharged through an outlet orifice by pressure, e.g. from an outlet device in contact or almost in contact, with the work
    • B05C5/027Coating heads with several outlets, e.g. aligned transversally to the moving direction of a web to be coated
    • B05C5/0275Coating heads with several outlets, e.g. aligned transversally to the moving direction of a web to be coated flow controlled, e.g. by a valve
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05CAPPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05C13/00Means for manipulating or holding work, e.g. for separate articles
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Abstract

The invention discloses a breathing card liquid coating device. The breathing card liquid coating device comprises a liquid coating device, a worktable, a card placing base, a breathing card moving device and a breathing card collecting device. The breathing card liquid coating device accelerates the breathing card liquid coating operation speed, is more convenient to use, and improves the efficiency.

Description

One kind is used to breathe card liquid coating device
Technical field
The invention belongs to the technical field of liquid coating device, specially a kind of to be used to breathe card liquid coating device.
Background technology
Breathing card in process of production, needs the process that masking liquid detection and drying are carried out to breathing card, former masking liquid mistake Journey is loaded down with trivial details, and efficiency is low and takes time and effort, and considerably increases the masking liquid time.
The content of the invention
It is an object of the invention to provide a kind of improve breathing card masking liquid speed of operation for breathing card liquid coating device, Efficiency is improve, using convenient.
In order to solve above-mentioned technical problem, the technical solution used in the present invention is:
One kind is for breathing card liquid coating device, including liquid coating device, workbench, puts deck, breathing card mobile device and exhale Card collection device is inhaled, wherein:
Breathing card mobile device includes seven horizontally disposed chutes and top card device, and breathing card mobile device both sides are provided with Slideway, chute front end is provided with top card device, and top card device is including crossbeam, installed in seven top boards, power set of crossbeam bottom With the slide block installed in crossbeam two ends bottom, slide block and slideway coordinate, and top board is correspondingly arranged with seven chutes, and top board one end is withstood Breathing card, power set drive crossbeam to move along slideway;
Deck is put installed in workbench side and positioned at the rear of top card device, deck is put and is provided with seven placing troughs, Breathing card is placed in placing trough, and seven placing troughs are located at directly over seven chutes and place trench bottom for open type;
Liquid coating device is arranged on workbench centre position and positioned at the rear for putting deck, liquid coating device include installing plate, Hold-down devices, syringe, two three-way magnetic valves, flexible rubber hose and injection needles, syringe is provided with 7 and is separately mounted to installing plate Front upper portion, hold-down devices include cylinder and pressing plate, and pressing plate is arranged on the end face of cylinder piston rod, and cylinder is being fixed on installing plate just Face, the piston rod end face of syringe is each attached to pressing plate bottom, and injection needle is arranged on the front bottom of installing plate, two three energizations Magnet valve is arranged on the front of installing plate, and positioned at syringe and the centre of injection needle, the quantity of injection needle is powered with two three The quantity of magnet valve is 7, syringe service life:Reach 3,000,000 more than the cycle, discharge capacity:100 μ l~15ml, plunger is full Stroke:60mm, repeatability precision:CV<1.5%, liquid sucking-discharging precision:<2.0%, the liquid outlet one of two three-way magnetic valves and go out Fluid apertures two is connected respectively with injection needle and syringe using software pipe, and inlet opening is connected using flexible rubber hose with reagent bottle;
Breathing card collection device includes support column, walking beam, pickup end, mechanical hand and the lifting installed in support column both sides Platform, walking beam is arranged on the top of support column, picks up the bottom that end is movably arranged on walking beam, and pickup end bottom is provided with seven groups of suctions Disk, seven groups of suckers are located at directly over seven chutes, and pickup end is provided with mobile device, and mobile device drives pickup end along walking Beam is moved, and the lifting platform on the left of support column is used for the net support that breathing card is not placed in lifting, the lifting on the right side of support column Platform is used to remove the net support for being placed with breathing card, and mechanical hand is provided with two, respectively positioned at support column top both sides, sets on mechanical hand There is baffle plate, baffle plate is to medial movement and promotes net support to medial movement.
Further, breathe card mobile device and be provided with detection means, detection means is arranged on liquid coating device and puts deck Between, detection means includes being arranged on mounting seat, the image amplifier in mounting seat above breathing card mobile device With the inversion set positioned at mounting seat rear, image amplifier is provided with seven and is respectively positioned on the surface of chute, inversion set Positioned at chute bottom, inversion set bottom is provided with lowering or hoisting gear, and lowering or hoisting gear is used to lift inversion set, and inversion set will be breathed Card reversion.
The invention has the beneficial effects as follows:
The speed of operation of breathing card masking liquid is improve, using convenient, efficiency is improve.
Description of the drawings
With reference to the accompanying drawings and detailed description the present invention is further detailed explanation.
Fig. 1 is schematic diagram of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is another schematic diagram of the invention.
Fig. 3 is side view of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is breathing card first schematic diagram of collection device in the present invention.
Fig. 5 is breathing card second schematic diagram of collection device in the present invention.
Fig. 6 is breathing card the 3rd schematic diagram of collection device in the present invention.
Fig. 7 is breathing card the 4th schematic diagram of collection device in the present invention.
Fig. 8 is liquid coating device schematic diagram in the present invention.
Specific embodiment
Embodiments of the invention are described in detail below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, but the present invention can be defined by the claims Implement with the multitude of different ways for covering.
As shown in drawings, it is a kind of for breathing card liquid coating device, including liquid coating device 1, workbench 2, put deck 3, breathing Card mobile device 4 and breathing card collection device 5, wherein:
Breathing card mobile device 4 includes seven horizontally disposed chutes 41 and top card device 42,4 liang of breathing card mobile device Side is provided with slideway 43, and top card device 42 is arranged on the front end of chute 41, and top card device 42 is including crossbeam 421, installed in the bottom of crossbeam 421 Seven top boards 422 in portion, power set 423 and the slide block installed in the two ends bottom of crossbeam 421, slide block coordinates with slideway 43, pushes up Plate 422 is correspondingly arranged with seven chutes 41, and breathing card is withstood in the one end of top board 422, and power set 423 drive crossbeam 421 along cunning Road 43 is moved, here, the form of power set has various, power set can be any one in motor or cylinder;
Deck 3 is put installed in the side of workbench 2 and positioned at the rear of top card device 42, deck 3 is put and is provided with seven and put Groove 31 is put, breathing card is placed in placing trough 31, seven placing troughs 31 are located at directly over seven chutes 41 and the bottom of placing trough 31 Portion is open type, and placing trough 31 is used for storage breathing card, and breathing is stuck under the reuse of gravity and is automatically lowered in chute 41, puts card The form of seat 3 has various;
Liquid coating device 1 is arranged on the centre position of workbench 2 and positioned at the rear for putting deck 3, and liquid coating device 1 includes installing Plate 11, hold-down devices 12,13, two three-way magnetic valves 14, flexible rubber hose of syringe and injection needle 15, syringe 13 is provided with 7 points Not An Zhuan installing plate 11 front upper portion, hold-down devices 12 include cylinder 121 and pressing plate 122, and pressing plate 122 is arranged on cylinder The end face of 121 piston rods, cylinder 121 is fixed on the front of installing plate 11, and the piston rod end face of syringe 13 is each attached to pressing plate 122 Bottom, injection needle 15 is arranged on the front bottom of installing plate 11, and two three-way magnetic valves 14 are arranged on the front of installing plate 11, and And positioned at syringe 13 and the centre of injection needle 15, the quantity of injection needle 15 is 7 with the quantity of two three-way magnetic valves 14, The service life of syringe 13:Reach 3,000,000 more than the cycle, discharge capacity:100 μ l~15ml, plunger full stroke:60mm, repeatability Precision:CV<1.5%, liquid sucking-discharging precision:<2.0%, the liquid outlet one and liquid outlet two of two three-way magnetic valves 14 respectively with note Penetrate pin 15 and syringe 13 to connect using software pipe, inlet opening is connected using flexible rubber hose with reagent bottle, by the use of cylinder 121 as moving Power, control is convenient, and response is more accelerated, it is notable that this device is designed, and syringe 13 has various requirements, can Obtained by outsourcing, the syringe 13 under this requirement ensure that masking liquid precision is higher;
Breathing card collection device 5 includes support column 51, walking beam 52, picks up end 53, mechanical hand 54 and installed in support column The lifting platform 55 of 51 both sides, walking beam 52 is arranged on the top of support column 51, picks up the bottom that end 53 is movably arranged on walking beam 52 Portion, the pickup bottom of end 53 is provided with seven groups of suckers 531, and seven groups of suckers 531 are located at directly over seven chutes 41, and pickup end 53 is provided with Mobile device, mobile device drives pickup end 53 to move along walking beam 52, there is one section of work below the rear end of walking beam 52 Make platform 2, net is propped up to be put on this section of workbench 2, and pickup end 53 will breathe card and be placed in net support, and mobile device is common dress Put, the combination of motor 532, screw rod 533 and slide block used in this device, slide block is installed in the pickup bottom of end 53, on slide block Screw is provided with, screw rod 533 coordinates with screw, motor 532 drives screw rod 533 to rotate, and motor 532 is fixed on the bottom one of walking beam 52 End, screw rod 533 is rotatably installed in the bottom of walking beam 52, and the lifting platform 55 positioned at the left side of support column 51 is not placed for lifting and exhaled The net support of card is inhaled, the lifting platform 55 positioned at the right side of support column 51 is used to remove the net support for being placed with breathing card, and lifting platform 55 is normal Device is seen, by outward available from this device, lifting platform 55 includes support bar 551, motor 552, screw rod 553 and lifting plate 554, lifting plate 554 is slidably mounted on the side of support bar 551, and the side of lifting plate 554 is provided with slide block, and screw rod 553 is rotated to be installed In the side of support bar 551 and through slide block, motor 552 drives screw rod 553 to rotate, and mechanical hand 54 is provided with two, is located at respectively The top both sides of support column 51, mechanical hand 54 is provided with baffle plate 541, and baffle plate 541 is to medial movement and promotes net to hold in the palm inside sidesway It is dynamic, here, it should be noted that the height that lifting plate 554 rises every time is equal to net support height, and the bottom of baffle plate 541 is higher than net support Bottom surface and the upper surface held in the palm less than net, the net backing portion of most last layer is slightly above workbench 2 on the lifting plate 554 on right side Height, the net backing portion of most last layer is slightly below the height of workbench 2 on the lifter plate 554 in left side.
Breathing card mobile device 4 is provided with detection means 6, and detection means 6 is arranged on liquid coating device 1 and puts between deck 3, Detection means 6 includes being arranged on mounting seat 61, the image amplifier in mounting seat 61 of the top of breathing card mobile device 4 With the inversion set 62 positioned at the rear of mounting seat 61, image amplifier is provided with seven and is respectively positioned on the surface of chute 41, instead Rotary device 62 is located at the bottom of chute 41, and the bottom of inversion set 62 is provided with lowering or hoisting gear, and lowering or hoisting gear is used to lift inversion set 62, Inversion set 62 will breathe card reversion, place mistake when image amplifier detects breathing card, the reversion dress in respective slide slots 41 62 risings are put, by one face of corresponding breathing card reversion, inversion set 62 gets for outsourcing.
Equal number of breathing card is placed in seven placing troughs 31 for putting deck 3, card device 42 is pushed up and is promoted the bottom Breathing is stuck in chute 41 moves, and upwards whether, some reverse side invert upwards, then dress in the front of the detection breathing card of detection means 6 62 are put by breathing card turn-over, is connected before and after the breathing card in chute 41, under the promotion of top card device 42, breathing is stuck in chute Move in 41, positioned at the underface of injection needle 15 when, the breathing card of liquid coating device 1 pair carries out masking liquid, and breathing card collection device 5 will be complete Breathing card into masking liquid is collected in net support.
Invention described above embodiment, does not constitute limiting the scope of the present invention, any in the present invention Spirit and principle within modification, equivalent and the improvement made etc., should be included in the claim protection model of the present invention Within enclosing.

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1. it is a kind of to be used to breathe card liquid coating device, it is characterised in that including liquid coating device, workbench, to put deck, breathing card movement Device and breathing card collection device, wherein:
Breathing card mobile device includes seven horizontally disposed chutes and top card device, and breathing card mobile device both sides are provided with cunning Road, chute front end is provided with top card device, top card device include crossbeam, seven top boards installed in crossbeam bottom, power set and Installed in the slide block of crossbeam two ends bottom, slide block coordinates with slideway, and top board is correspondingly arranged with seven chutes, and top board one end is withstood and exhaled Card is inhaled, power set drive crossbeam to move along slideway;
Deck is put installed in workbench side and positioned at the rear of top card device, deck is put and is provided with seven placing troughs, breathed Card is placed in placing trough, and seven placing troughs are located at directly over seven chutes and place trench bottom for open type;
Liquid coating device is arranged on workbench centre position and positioned at the rear for putting deck, and liquid coating device includes installing plate, pushes Device, syringe, two three-way magnetic valves, flexible rubber hose and injection needles, syringe is provided with 7 fronts for being separately mounted to installing plate Upper end, hold-down devices include cylinder and pressing plate, and pressing plate is arranged on the end face of cylinder piston rod, and cylinder is fixed on installing plate front, The piston rod end face of syringe is each attached to pressing plate bottom, and injection needle is arranged on the front bottom of installing plate, two threeway electromagnetism Valve is arranged on the front of installing plate, and positioned at syringe and the centre of injection needle, the quantity of injection needle and two threeway electromagnetism The quantity of valve is 7, syringe service life:Reach 3,000,000 more than the cycle, discharge capacity:100 μ l~15ml, the full row of plunger Journey:60mm, repeatability precision:CV<1.5%, liquid sucking-discharging precision:<2.0%, the liquid outlet one of two three-way magnetic valves and go out liquid Hole two is connected respectively with injection needle and syringe using software pipe, and inlet opening is connected using flexible rubber hose with reagent bottle;
Breathing card collection device includes support column, walking beam, pickup end, mechanical hand and the lifting platform installed in support column both sides, Walking beam is arranged on the top of support column, picks up the bottom that end is movably arranged on walking beam, and pickup end bottom is provided with seven groups of suckers, Seven groups of suckers are located at directly over seven chutes, and pickup end is provided with mobile device, and mobile device drives pickup end along walking beam Mobile, the lifting platform on the left of support column is used for the net support that breathing card is not placed in lifting, the lifting platform on the right side of support column For removing the net support for being placed with breathing card, mechanical hand is provided with two, and respectively positioned at support column top both sides, mechanical hand is provided with Baffle plate, baffle plate is to medial movement and promotes net support to medial movement.
2. it is a kind of according to claim 1 to be used to breathe card liquid coating device, it is characterised in that breathing card mobile device is provided with Detection means, detection means is arranged on liquid coating device and puts between deck, and detection means includes being arranged on breathing card mobile device The mounting seat of top, the image amplifier in mounting seat and the inversion set positioned at mounting seat rear, image amplifier It is provided with seven and is respectively positioned on the surface of chute, inversion set is located at chute bottom, inversion set bottom is provided with lowering or hoisting gear, Lowering or hoisting gear is used to lift inversion set, and inversion set will breathe card reversion.
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